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The spirit level

Paperback • 2010 • English • 1. edition

The spirit level: why equality is better for everyone

2 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Greeks? The answer: inequality. This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show: how almost everything - from life expectancy to depression levels, violence to illiteracy - is affected not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal it is; that societies with a bigger gap between rich and poor ...Show more

Society and Social Sciences

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ISBN

9780141032368

Publisher

The Penguin Press

Published year

2010

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The spirit level

Format

Paperback

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